{"id":98261,"date":"2019-06-20T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/20\/uk-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-unlawful-court-of-appeal-declares\/"},"modified":"2019-06-20T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:52:20","slug":"uk-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-unlawful-court-of-appeal-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98261","title":{"rendered":"UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia unlawful, court of appeal declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling prompts government to suspend new arms sales to Saudi Arabia while it urgently reviews its processesLong read: the UK\u2019s true role in Yemen\u2019s deadly warBritish arms sales to Saudi Arabia have been declared unlawful by the court of appeal because ministers failed to properly assess their contribution to civilian casualties in indiscriminate bombing in Yemen.The unexpected ruling prompted the British government to suspend new arms sales to Saudi Arabia while it urgently reviews its processes \u2013 although Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, said the government would also seek to appeal. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2019\/jun\/20\/uk-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-for-use-in-yemen-declared-unlawful\" target=\"_blank\">UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia unlawful, court of appeal declares<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling prompts government to suspend new arms sales to Saudi Arabia while it urgently reviews its processesLong read: the UK\u2019s true role in Yemen\u2019s deadly warBritish arms sales to Saudi Arabia have been declared unlawful by the court of appeal because ministers failed to properly assess their contribution to civilian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}